Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With just the merest hint of deviltry in his roving eye, Vag waited for the big event of the day at Braves Field. It was Reading Period, but so what! Encased in his now rather shoddy seersucker jacket, with a Chesterfield protruding not at all jauntily from his mouth, he waited while a man in a double-breasted suit walked onto the field. Today, of all things foolish, they were going to raffle off a '47 Packard, and what was more silly, he was waiting around on the hope that he would win it. Of course he never won anything...
...disloyal" jobholders, who resigned. Civil Service Commissioner Arthur Flemming estimated that before the investigations were over, about 3,200 of the Government's 2,000,000-plus employees would be tagged as disloyal. The report did not define the shades of disloyalty. The War Department alone gave a hint: 158 of the 190 civilian employees it had fired were "ineligible for employment for disloyalty involving Communism...
Last week, Alfredo Palacios, now 65, was in Lima, Peru, at the invitation of ancient, august San Marcos University. In sonorous cadences he stuck pretty close to his lecture subjects-legality and liberty. Only once did he hint of his hatred for Perón and Perón's Government. During a round of goodbyes, a Peruvian student spoke of the disappearance of academic freedom from Perón-dominated universities. "I am tempted to unburden my sorrow over the situation," replied Palacios, tears brimming his eyes, "but I have promised to deal with my Government only...
...plants as mineral "indicators" is still a new science. When it is further developed, a prospector will have to know botany as well as geology. For example, if he finds a plant called Amorpha canescens growing where little else grows, he will have a good hint that the rock beneath the roots is worth investigating for lead...
...laughs, and there are some funny scenes about moviemaking, in which she is stoutly abetted by William Demarest as a director, by Constance Collier as a high-nosed old ham actress, and by such old masters of journeyman slapstick as Chester Conklin and Snub Pollard. There is some faint hint of the toughness of the people who made the old movies, and a fair suggestion of the way they did their work, like children making up games as they went along...